Which was the first railway in China and what was the first railway in China?

China now has a lot of transportation modes, and with the construction and laying of high-speed rail, China's railway network is also more dense. There are some of the longest and most expensive railways in today's railways, but do you know which one was the earliest in our country?

At 3 o'clock on May 13, 2007, the last blockade of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Fourth Line was successfully completed in the north of Buji Railway Station, announcing that China's first four-line railway was officially completed and opened to traffic.

China's first commercial railway, the Songhu Railway in 1876;

China's first self-built railway, the Tangxu Railway in 1881;

China's first self-designed and built railway, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, opened in 1909;

The first railway in New China - Chengdu-Chongqing Railway (started in 1950 and opened in 1952).

China's first railway was the Wusong Railway, in 1876, the British merchant Jardine Matheson, in the name of building ordinary roads, built the Shanghai Concession to Wusong narrow-gauge light railway.

In 1881, China finally had its first self-built railway, the Tangxu Railway (in present-day Tangshan, Hebei). The strange thing is that it is not the locomotive that pulls the wagons on this railway, but mules and horses.

The first railroad was built in 1876 by the British in secret"Wusong Railway", from Shanghai to Wusongzhen, the total length of kilometers. Later, because the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that the roar of the train hindered feng shui and was disrespectful to her ancestors, she spent 10,000 taels to buy and dismantle it.

The first railway built by the Chinese themselves was the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which was built in 1905 with Zhan Tianyou, the father of the railway, as the chief engineer, and was completed in 1909

China's first railway, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, designed by Zhan Tianyou, achieved a solution to the lack of power by pushing and pulling at the same time.

In the autumn of that year, a 500-meter-long model railway with a small steam locomotive was laid by the British businessman Durand outside the Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, which was the first railway in China.

2.Wusong Railway: In 1876, the British Jardine Matheson & Co. built an open railway between Wusong and Shanghai to transport passengers and goods, and was the first official railway in China.

3.Tangxu Railway, funded and built by the Kaiping Mining Bureau of the Qing Dynasty. In 1879, Li Hongzhang, the leader of the Westernization faction, requested the construction of a railway from Tangshan to Beitang in order to transport coal from the Kaiping Coal Mine in Tangshan to Tianjin.

On the grounds that the railway locomotive "smoked the crops and shook the tomb", the Qing Dynasty decided to shorten the railway, only build a section from Tangshan to Xugezhuang, and dig a canal between Xugezhuang and Lutai to connect the Ji Canal to reach Beitang Haikou. On November 8, 1881, the Tangshan-Xugezhuang Railway was opened to traffic.

4.Taiwan's Taixin Railway, Liu Mingchuan approved the construction of the Taiwan Provincial Railway in 1887. The line was built in 1891 and 893 respectively, with a total length of about 107 kilometers, a gauge of 1,067 mm, and a rail weight of 18 kilograms per meter.

The earliest railway in China was the Wusong Railway. Wusong Railway is a railway built without authorization by the British capital group led by Jardine Matheson in the second year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1876), and was redeemed and demolished in the following year.

China's first small railway - In 1865, British businessman Durand built a one-mile-long "exhibition railway" along the moat outside the Xuanwu Gate in Beijing, which was the earliest railway in China. Soon, the Qing rulers ordered it to be demolished on the grounds that "the spectators were horrified".

Strictly speaking, this does not yet count as a railway in the true sense of the word.

China's first commercial railway - in 1876, Shanghai Jardine Matheson British businessmen in Shanghai without the consent of the Qing **, the use of deception to build in Shanghai, unauthorized construction of the Songhu Railway (from Wu Liao to Shanghai), in July 1876 completed and opened to traffic, a total length of 15 kilometers, operating for more than a year, this is the first railway in China to handle passenger and freight transportation business. Later, Qing ** redeemed it with 280,000 taels**, and all of them were redeemed and demolished by Qing **.

The Tangshan-Xugezhuang Railway, which was built by the Chinese themselves, and the Tangshan-Xugezhuang Railway, which began to be built in 1881, were the first railways that were truly successful and preserved for practical application, thus opening the prelude to China's independent construction of railways.

The first railway trunk independently designed and built by China - Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway (Fengtai Liucun - Zhangjiakou). Chief designer of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway: Zhan Tianyou (1861---1919), a native of Wuyuan, Jiangxi.

He is an outstanding patriotic engineer and railway engineering expert in my country. Construction began in 1906 and was completed and opened to traffic in 1909. In 1923, the Pingsui Railway and the Beijing-Baotou Railway (Beijing (Beiping)-Zhangjiakou-Baotou (Suiyuan)) were completed and opened to traffic.

China's first railway, built by the British in Shanghai under the name of the British Road Company, was 12 kilometers long, but it was soon demolished

The first railway in China was the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is the railway that Zhan Tianyou presided over and was responsible for, it connects Fengtai District of Beijing, passes through Badaling, Juyongguan, Shacheng, Xuanhua and other places to Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, with a total length of about 200 kilometers, started construction in September 1905 and was completed in 1909. Now known as the Beijing-Baotou Railway, the former Beijing-Zhangzhou section was the first section of the Beijing-Baotou railway line.

Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway: Zhangjiakou is outside the Juyong Pass, northwest of Beijing, and has been an important town in northern China militarily and commercially since ancient times. During the Qing Dynasty, after eliminating many obstacles from Britain and Russia, it was decided that Zhan Tianyou would be the chief engineer, and all construction and management would be completely controlled by the Chinese.

Therefore, in a relatively short period of time, with the lowest cost, the construction of the whole line was successfully completed. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway is a high-quality first-class trunk railway built by Chinese independently, breaking the monopoly of foreigners in building China's railways.

Wusong Railway, from the current Jing'an District of Shanghai to Wusong District.